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Play On! Shakespeare in Silent Film (DVD and Blu-ray)

From King John in 1899, film adaptations of Shakespeare's plays proved popular with early filmmakers and audiences. By the end of the silent era, around 300 films had been produced. This feature-length celebration draws together a delightful selection of thrilling, dramatic, iconic and humorous scenes from two dozen different titles, many of which have been unseen for decades.

See Hamlet addressing Yorick's skull, King Lear battling a raging storm at Stonehenge, The Merchant of Venice in vibrant stencil colour, the fairy magic of A Midsummers Night's Dream, and what was probably John Gielgud's first appearance on film, in the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet. These treasures from the BFI National Archive have been newly digitised and are brought to life by the composers and musicians of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre.

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This is a well-put together hour of excerpts from (mostly) silent Shakespeare films, but it seems to make little sense not including a commentary. There is one for almost all the bonus features, but nothing at all offered for the hour long compilation that is at the heart of this set. Yes, there is a booklet with a few lines about each film, which you can flick back and forth through while watching the film if you want (and thus miss half of what you're watching), but would it really have been such a difficult thing to do to provide a thoughtful commentary about these films, where they come from, who made them, who stars in them, and which ones exist in full and which are just fragments. A lost opportunity - and very strange given the commentary on the extras.